Hermitage Boutique House is arranged around a central courtyard where a heated saltwater pool sits at the middle of everything, framed on all sides by the accommodation itself. The effect is closer to a private residence than a hotel: no corridors, no lobby crowds, only a handful of houses looking inward at the water.
It suits families spreading out over two bedrooms, couples who want space to move around in, and groups travelling together through Perak. The Lake Gardens, the zoo and the old shophouse streets of Taiping are all a short drive away, and the house waits quietly for you to come back from them.
Hermitage Boutique House combines the privacy and space of a holiday home with the practical comforts travellers expect from a hotel. The property sits in a peaceful residential pocket of Taiping, close enough to the Lake Gardens and the town centre that nothing feels far away, yet far enough from the main roads that evenings stay genuinely quiet.
Guests tend to arrive with a full itinerary and leave having spent more time at the house than planned. Part of that is the layout: because the pool sits between the buildings instead of at the edge of the property, the courtyard becomes the natural place to gather. Children can swim while someone reads on the deck; a late afternoon can pass without anyone deciding to do anything in particular.
Parking is on site and free, the front desk is staffed around the clock, and housekeeping keeps the houses in order daily without disturbing the calm. These are small things individually, but together they are what makes a stay here feel unhurried from the first evening to the last morning.
Three house layouts run from a one-bedroom for two people to a two-bedroom townhouse for a group of four. Every one of them is air-conditioned, has a private bathroom with a walk-in shower, and is furnished for stays measured in nights rather than hours.
Nothing here is arranged along a corridor. You unlock your own door, keep your own hours and treat the courtyard beyond it as an extension of the living space. For travellers used to standard rooms, the difference shows up in the ordinary moments: somewhere to put the suitcases, somewhere to sit that is not the bed, and a door that closes on the rest of the world.
One king bed
A self-contained layout for couples and solo travellers who would rather have a whole small house than a single room. The bedroom holds a king bed, the living space stays air-conditioned through the afternoon, and the bathroom is yours alone for the length of the stay.
One king bed and one queen bed
Two bedrooms give travelling companions a little distance from one another at the end of the day. One room is arranged around a king bed and the other a queen, which suits families with older children as easily as it suits two couples sharing a trip through Perak.
Two king beds
A townhouse arrangement with a king bed in each bedroom, built for groups who prefer to share one address rather than scatter along a corridor. Everyone keeps their own space while breakfast, the courtyard and the evening still happen together.
Every house here looks inward at the same stretch of water, which is why the courtyard, rather than a lobby or a corridor, is where a stay at Hermitage Boutique House actually takes place.
The saltwater pool defines the character of the property. It is heated, it has a shallow end that lets younger swimmers and less confident guests join in, and it is enclosed by the buildings rather than exposed to the street, so swimming here feels private rather than public.
Because the water sits between the houses instead of at the edge of the property, the walk from your own door to the deck takes a few seconds, and the courtyard ends up being used at every hour rather than only in the middle of the day.
A sun deck and outdoor furniture surround the water, which means the courtyard is as useful for drying off, reading or waiting out the hottest part of the afternoon as it is for swimming. Shade sits on one side or the other for most of the day.
In the evening, with the lights low and the town quiet, it becomes the place everyone drifts back to after a day at the Lake Gardens, the zoo or the shophouse streets in the centre of Taiping.
What a day here looks like
Breakfast is served in your own room, with continental and Asian selections, so there is no dining room to be down by a certain hour and no queue to join. Families with small children appreciate the quiet start, and so do guests planning to reach the Lake Gardens before the heat arrives.
If the morning is going slowly, it can keep going slowly. Eat on your own schedule, take a swim before the sun climbs, and leave for the town whenever the day feels like it has properly begun.
Read about the stayTaiping is a town of rain trees, old shophouses and long green afternoons. The Lake Gardens are the reason most travellers come, and Zoo Taiping with its night safari gives families a second reason to stay an extra evening. Both sit within an easy drive of the house.
Closer to home, the surrounding neighbourhood has cafes and kopitiams within a few hundred metres, and the railway station is roughly three kilometres away for guests arriving by train. It is a comfortable base whether you plan every hour or simply wander until something looks worth stopping for.
Explore Taiping
Hermitage Boutique House sits on a quiet residential street in Taman Tupai Mas, a few minutes from the Lake Gardens and the older part of town. The front desk is staffed at every hour, so a call or a message about a late arrival, an extra bed or directions for the last stretch of the journey always reaches someone.
Free private parking sits on site, so guests arriving by car can pull straight in without arranging anything in advance.
Taiping is roughly three hours north of Kuala Lumpur and about an hour and a half from Penang, with the railway station some three kilometres from the house.
Get directionsSpend the day among gardens, wildlife and old streets, then return to a spacious house with the pool a few steps from your door and nothing on the schedule until morning.
The 24-hour front desk can answer questions about arrival times, extra beds or anything else you need to settle before you travel.
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